Ticket ejecting and registering device.



No. 890,632. PATENTED JUNE 16, "1908.

I I. PLUEGBLMAN.

TICKET EJBCTING AND REGISTERING DEVICE.

PPLIO ION P D A AT ILE AUG 16, 1907 3 S S B L No. 890,632. PATBKTED mm: is, 1308 1. FLUEGELMAN.

TICKET BJEGTING AND. REGISTERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 16, 1907.

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TICKET EJ'ECTING AND Specification of known that I, Isrnon FLUEGELMAN, a cit zen of the United States, residing at New York city, Manhattan borough, county and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Ejecting andRegistering Devices, of which the following is a clear,' full, and exact desemen.

l 7 invention relates to ticket or check 'e'eeting devices, particularly adapted for c'eckogra'rii rnachines for theater and other purposes,- the object of the invention-being to'provide a ticket or check ejecting device,

in combination with a registering means, thatcannot operate for the purpose of ejecting checks (without the cooperation of a check, thesaid check to be automatically 'placed in. position relative to the ejecting Another object of the invention is to prodevice.

vide a register operating means adapted to be actuated bya check when said check is e'ected by the ejecting device, the object of t latter rovision being to prevent the registering' evice being erated unlessja check has been ejected, t ereby preventing a false registration. ithout the above mentioned provision of a register actuating device, operated by a check, the ejectin' device could be operated and perform al the functions necessary to eject a check Without actually producing an equivalent, in theform of a check; that is to say, if

the registering device was directly connected zto the e'ecting device, ther'egister could be operate without the presence or delivery of .--a check. a It is to prevent this false registra- -tion that I provide a register operating de,

vice normally independent for operation ,from'jthe ejecting device. 1' i A further object of my inventipn is to provide a device, adapted 'for operation by a check, whereby the re 'stering device will operate should. a", ch'ec .be surreptitiously taken from the device.

For 'the purpose offecon'omy of space I cxprefer to mount above the ejecting device a magazine adapted to hold checks and to auv tomaticall drop the checks, one by one, in

the checksto the eject-- my mysteries-"1.3 device wh ch. adapted to .iaekthe c. qbctingdeviceWhen it is*ne( PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

REGISTERING DEVICE.

Letters-Pfatent. Patented June 18, 1908.

Application filed. August 16, 1907. Serial No. 388.819.

essary to remove the check. delivering device or magazine from the ejecting device.

By means of the above mentioned arrangement of parts I am able to produce alcol'nbined ejecting and registering device which requires for its complete operation the presence of a check.

In practice I place an ejecting device, provided with a check magazine, on each side pf the window of the box-office, and when a patron desires a check the clerk operates the lever of theejecting device, whereby a check is delivered and the sale thereof register-0U.

To the foregoing and other ends which will hereinafter appear my invention comprises the novel features of improvement and combination and arrangement of parts which I Wiil now proceed to describe and finally claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, wherein Figure 1 illustrates, diagrammatically, a rear view of a box oflice Window, with an ejecting machine at each side thereof; Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the checl gnagazine; Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the a -ain Fig. 2, and shows checks therein contained; Fig. 4 is a detail vertical sectional view ofa portion of the magazine and the socketof the ejecting device which is ada ted to receive and hold the magazine,- the .ock therefor bcin also indicated; Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail; view of a portion of the wall of the magazine which carries the master-key forolperatin the tumblers ada ted to lock the slide of the ejecting device, t e said master-key being also shown; Fig. 6 is a bottom plan view of the ejecting device; Fig. 7 is a ongitudinai sectional view of the ejecting device,- (the sectionxbeing taken on a iine bb 'in' Fig. 6) when in position for operation'; Fig. 8 is a top plan view of the ejecting device, and shows a check iii-position for ejection; FigNQJisan enlarged detail. plan 'view of the ratchet andpawls adaptedto operate to prevent qa reverse movement of the ejecting slidewhen said slide is moved in vice; Fig. 1 11s a side elevation, party .in

section, of a portion of the ejecting device,

and shows the lower end of themagazine supported thereby, the niaster--key being also.

. aszhaving actuated tliaqtumbiers to;

magazine, the section being taken on a iine either, direction I is an enlarged. deg tail front view of't-iietu'rn olers which look the larged sectional detail view of a potion of' release the ejecting slide; Fig. 12 is an enthe ejector-casing and bed-plate therefor, and shows the lock for securing the casing and bed-plate together; and Fig. '13 is a sectional detail view of the movable contact adapted to complete the circuit for the electrically controlled registering device.

Like numerals of reference are intended to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the screen or grating which is usu-, ally placed in the front of a theater boX-oflice; or the like, the opening 2 being for the'pur pose of passing money and tickets therethrough. At each side of the opening 2, I place a check-ejecting device 3 in order that two operators can work at the same time.

The ejecting devices 3 are adapted to remov-v connection with racks 10, one, only being raised, whereby the bolt 11 could be raised and allow the checks 8 to fall from the magazinc and whereby the said checks could be used without being registered. The ejecting device is provided'with a socket 12 in which the magazine 4 fits (see Fig. 4). A key 13,. normally held in one wall of the socket 12 against removal, serves to lock the magazine in place and also to raisethe bolt 11, whereby the checks 7 a're'free to fall. By this means the checks 8 are secured against removal until the ma azine is in position.

A detaile mechanism will now e given: Referringto Figs. 6 and 7, the numeral 14 indicates the body portion of the ejector-casing, and15 the top of said casing 14. In the top 15 I rovide a guideway 16 in which a reciprocatmg slide 17 is adapted to work. The said slide carries a rack 18, with which a segmen tal gear 19 is adapted to mesh and operate the said rack. The segmental gear 19 is secured to and operated by a rotatable shaft 20, which in turn is rotated by a handle 21 convenient to the hand of the operator.

description 'of the ejecting To the shaft20 Isecure tworatchets 22 and 23, the teeth of which are oppositely disposed, and adjacent to said ratchets I pivot- 9) which cooperates with a spring opposed latch 28, The operation of said ratchets 22, 23, pawl 24 and latch 28 will now be described. As the slide 18 is moved forwardly in the direction of the arrow A'(Figs. 6 and 7) by the segmental gear 19, the said ratchets will also rotate in the same di ection. As the ratchet 22 is cut, as shown in Fig. 7, the end or nose 25 of the pawl 24 will, in conse- 4 quence of its being in contact with the said ratchet 22 jump the teeth, and will continue tojump the teeth as long as the forward movement is lc-pt u Should the movement of the slide tend to reverse, before the forward movement has been completed, the end 25 of the pawl would catch in one of the teeth and prevent the reversal of said slide. At the end of the said forward movement of the slide 17, a cam 29, carried by the ratchet 22, will im inge upon the end 25 of the ratchet 24 21K knock it upwardly and away from the ratchet 22 whereby the tooth 27 will force the latch 28 upwardly, and pass under the nose 30 thereof, whereby the spring 31 will pull the latch 28 downwardly so that the nose 36 thereof will be on the opposite side, of the tooth 27, previously occupied by thesaid nose :30. This'action will cause the nose 26 of the pawl 23 to rest upon the ratchet 23. When the slide 17 comes backwardly, the nose 26 of the pawl '24 will jum the teeth of the ratchet 23. Should the ackward movement be checked, or tend to go forward, the said nose 25 will engage one of the tel th of the said ratchet 23. the above described device. I am able to prevent the slide from being returned to its starting'point until a movement in either direction. has been com )leted. The ratchet 23 'is also provided wit acam 32 which willknock the'nose 26 upwardly when the backwardstroke of the slide has been completed, whereby the pawl is thrown, in the manner described, against the ratchet 22. The slide is then in condition :to be againmoved for- Ward. v

As shown in Fig. 7- the magazine is absent and when in this condition I prefer to lock the slide 17 of the ejecting device against movement, which I do in the following manner: As can be seen in Figs. 7 and 8 the slide 17 is provided with transvof -e grooves 33 and 34,v and the cover 35, which carries the socket 12, has ivotally attached thereto a plurality of tumli the outer ends of the tumblers 37 being below the plane of the top' of the outer ends of the lens 36 and 37 (see Fig. 10), the topof adjacent tumblers 36, while the inner ends of all the said tumblers are in alinement and adapted'to'engage the groove 33 when the slide 17 is in its rearward position." The outer end of each of said tumblers is pro- .vided with a catch 38 which is adapted to en-' take place if two or more tumblers. wzei'ethe magazine 4 is inserted into the socket 12 of the ejecting device. The object of' the above described device is to prevent the unlocking ofthe slide 17 by any means other than a master-key, and as the master-key is carried by the magazine it is obvious that the slide 17 cannot be unlocked until the magazine has been inserted into the socket 12. When the master key 40 strikes the tumblers and moves them downwardly, the

movement of said tumblers will just be enough to free the inner ends thereof from the groove 33- butnot enough to cause the catches 38 to engage the grooves 34.

I will now describe the recording features of the ejecting device: As it is essential to the complete operation of my improved ejecting device to register the number of checks delivered, the said register being visible to the operaton'I mount upon one wall of the easing 14 a counting device 43, such for instance as aVeeder cyclometer, which is mechanically o erated bythe passage of a check in the following manner: Referring now to Figs. 6 and 8, the numeral 44 indicates a linger carried by a rotatable spindle 45.

, Under the top plate 1.5 of the casing 14, I

'mount an arm 46 upon the spindle and connect the said arm, by means of a pawl 47, to the ratchet 48 of the cyclometer 43. The said spindle 45 also carries an arm 49, which by means of a rod 50, is connected to the back end ofthe slide '17 asat 51.

The object of connecting the arm 49 with. the back end of the slide 17 isjto' provide a means independent the operating lever21 whereby'the slide lTwil'l be caused to move forward and operate. the registers shoulda check be surreptitiously removed means of a wire or the like. .Itlis'obviousthat in that event the fingers wand 54 will be caused to rotate should ajch'eck be pulled outwardly. The movement of the fmger-eg will, by means of the ro'dhfl, cause the slide 17 to move tor ward,'whereby an electrical circuit will be completed for the electrical register, and the ilt" register 43 will also be operated by the moveinent of the said finger'49; As shown by the saidFig. 8, ,thefinger 4.4, is in its normal positionf Before describing the operation of regisjteringon-the cyclometer, I will describe a cooperating electrically operated registering {dialogwhich is preferably situated in the direction of the arrow A in Fig. 7.

oflice "cffthe'snianager, of the theater. For the pur ose of o ierating the electrical re istering 'evice I. lace a second finger 52 (1* lg. 8) on the opposite side of the top 15 as shown, and mount the said finger on a rotatable spindle 53. At-the lower end of the pindle 53 I mount a circuit closing arm 54, which is normally held against an insulated stop 55. Both of said fingers 44 and 52 are spring opposed, as shown in Fig. 6. The casingld is connected to one side of a source of electrical energy, as shown; consequently, the arm 54 is grounded.

The slide 17 carries a block of insulating material 56 upon which I mount a metallic track 57 ada ted to contact the arm 54, and

upon the un er side of the to 15 of the easing 14 I mount another bloc of insulating material 58, which carries metal brushes 59, said brushes being electrically'conneried to a contact 60 by a wire 61, (see Fig. 7) the contact 60 being carried by a blockof insulatiiigmaterial 62, and is in turn in circuit with a spring opposed movable contact 63 by means of the bushing 64, (see Fig. .13). On the bottom plate 65 of the casing 14 I' mount a block of insulating material 66}, upon which a contact 67 is placed said con-. tact 6.7 being connected to the side 68 of the source of electrical energy 69. The magnetically controlled registering device 70 18 iii-- eluded in the electrical circuit.

I will now describe the operation of ejecting a check and also the manner of registering the ejection thereof: When the magazine 4 is placed in the socket 12 and the tumblers 36 ahd 37 operated to release the slide 17 (as shown in Fig. 11), the checks 7 will be free to drop one by one in front of said slide 17 and back of the fingers 44 and 52 (as shown in Fig. 8) due to the raising of the bolt 11, as has been described. I will now suppose a check is desired. As a check 7 has dropped,

in manner above described, in front of the slide 17 (as shown in Fig. 7) and is in condition to be ejected, I push the handle 21 toward the front end of the device, or in the As the slide .17 comes forward, the check 7 will be pushed outwardly toward the opening, 71 (see-Fig. 7 the said opening being indicated by the numerals 71, in F ig. 8, for the sake of clearness. As the check 7 travels forwardly it wills'trike the fingers; 44 and 52, and a continned forward movement of the check will finallycause said fingers to assume the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 8. When the said lingers have assumed the said dotted line position, the ratchet 4 8, controlled by the finger 44, will have been pushed to engage another tooth of the ratchet on the cycl'ometer 413, and the circuit closing arni 54 will have been pushed to the dotted line position 54 (see Fig. 6). The length of the arm 54 is proportioned-so that i w ll have.

be pulled back to its normal position by its access assumedv said dotted line position before the j ejector, a plurality of oppositely disposed track 57 comes ahead. sufficiently to get be hind the arm 54 (see dotted lines 72, Fig. 6). When the arm 54 and track 57are in contact; as shown by the dotted lines, the said track will also be in contact with the contact -59, and hence an electrical circuit is estabscription of said electrical circuit has herein' before'been given. When the slide 17 has been pushed to-its extreme forward position, the check 7 will drop out and the arm 44 will spring. This will actuate the cyclometer- 4S I and the ejection of the check 7 will be reg- .new check 7 will drop intoposition.

above described action can take place until istered. Two registrations of the ejection of .a check are, by the above described means,

registered. When the slide has been brought to its extreme rear, or normal, position, a

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all the checks have been ejected from the magazine. v I

It will be seen, in Fig. 7, that the case 14 and bottom plate 65 are separably connected, bya lock. In order to form an automatic contact, which will be adapted to place the source of energy 69 in circuit With the con tact 59, I provide the plate 67 and spring contact 63. the spring contact 63 will come together when the case 14 and bottom-plate 65 are fitted together. were directly connected, the case 14 and the bottom plate 65 could not be separated to any great degree.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a movable ej ector,

a magazine-detachable therefrom, a locking 1 device adapted to lock said ejector against movement, and a controlling device, having.

tongues of different lengths carried by said magazine and adapted to actuate said look ing device, when said magazine is in position. 2. In combination with a magazine adapted to retain checks, a reciprocating ejector, a

rotatable shaft adjacent thereto, means car- {ried by said shaft adapted to operate said ejector,- a plurality of oppositely disposedratchets carried by said shaft, pawls adapted to engage said ratchets one at a time, means adapted to' automatically throwj said pawls ejector has been 'moved a predetermined dis-T tance in'either direction, and a locking device adaptedto lock said ejector, said locking device comprising a plurality of tumblers.

3. In combination with a magazine adapted to retain checks, a reciprocating ejector, a

,IOtatable shaft adjacent thereto, means carrie'd by said shaft adapted to operate said The said plate contact 67 and If the wire 68 andcontact 59- prising a plurality of tumblers.

4. In combination with a magazine adapted to retain checks, an e ector comprising a reciprocating slide provided with. a rack, a

rotatable shaft, a segmentalgear carried by said shaft adapted to mesh with said rack,a

plurality of oppositely disposed ratchets car ried by said shaft, pawls' adapted to engage said ratchets one at a time, means adapted to automatlcally throw sa1d pawls to engage their ad acent ratchets when sald ejector has been moved a predetermined distance in either direction, and a locking device adapted to lock said ejector, said locking device comprising a plurality of tumblers.

5. In combination with a magazine adapted tb retain checks, an ejector comprising a reciprocating slide provided with a rack, a rotatable shaft, a segmental gear carried by" said shaftadapte'd to mesh with said rack, a plurality of locking tumblers adapted to lock said slide against movement when said magazine and said ejector are separated, and amaster-key carried by said magazinea'dapted to actuate said tumblers, to free said slide, when said magazine is in position.

,6. In combination with a magazine adapted to retain checks, a movable ejector, a lever for manually operating said ejector to deliver checks, arcgistering device,-and means independent of said lever, and actuated by said checks, adapted to move said ejector and operate said registering device, should said checks be surreptitiously removed.

7. In combination. with a magazine adapted to retain checks, a plurality of movable fingers adjacent to the delivery point of said magazine, an ejector separated from said iin-- gers a distance approximately equal to the length of said checks, a mechanical register operated by one of said fingers, an electrical register controlled by the other ofsaidfingers, and means adapted to actuate said ejector at will, whereby the said fingers are caused to move by the forward movement of said checks.

8. The combination of an ejecting device, a mechanical registering device, an electrical registering device, a plurality of fingers normally disconnected for operation from said ejecting device, a check automatically positioned between said ejecting device and said fingers, one of said fingers being adapted -.to actuate said mechamcal registering device,

rality of tumblers adapted for simultaneous and the other of said fingers being adapted to complete the circuit for ejecting device removable therefrom, means adapted to automatically lock said ejecting device against movement when said magazine is removed, said means compris ng a plumovement.

10. The combination of a magazine, an ejecting deviceremovable therefrom, means adapted to' automatically lock said ejecting device against movement when said magazine is removed, said ejecting device being provided with a plurality of notches, locking means adapted to engage one of said notches when the magazine is removed, said means being also'adapted to-engage the other of said notches should said locking means be forced out of engagement with the notch first named, and means carried by themagazine adapted to actuate said lockingmeans, to

free said ejecting device, when said magazine is placed in position.

11. The combination of a magazine, an ejecting device removable therefrom-andprovided with a registering device, and means .adapted to prevent the operation of said registering device when said magazine and said ejecting device are separated, said means comprising a connecting element between said ejecting device and said registeringdevice.

12. In combination with a magazine adapted to retain checks, an ejector for said checks, and a locking device for said ejector,

said locking device comprising a plurality of cooperating locking elements adapted for simultaneous operation.

13. In combination with a magazine adapted to retain checks, an ejector for said checks, a locking device for said ejector, said locking device comprising a plurality of cooperating locking elements adapted for simultaneous operation, and means adapted to actuate said locking elements.

14.- In combination with a magazine adapted to retain checks, an ejector forsaid checks, a locking device for said ejector, said locking device comprising a plurality of co- Operating locking elements, adapted for silock said ejecting device, and means adaptedto keep said tumblers outof engagement with said ejecting device.

Signed at New York city'this 12th day of August 1907. w

' ISIDOR FLUEGELMAN.

' Witnessesr I EDWARD A. JARVIS, f

'LILLIAN HARRIS. 

